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Anyone else feel like we aren't getting the whole story here?
by kneebonian 4y ago
Anyone else feel like we aren't getting the whole story here?
- thrill 4y agoNo, I feel like we are jumping with both feet to conclusions rather than gathering data and then evaluating.
- topspin 4y ago> jumping with both feet to conclusions What conclusions? I'd actually like to see some conclusions. So far all we have is 'objects'.
- ggm 4y ago"Reported" objects. On a complex radar system which has filters in the process of being re-tuned, because of concern things have been missed but now, there are more false positives: radar is complicated and weather, dust, floating metallised party balloons, insects, migrating birds can generate signals.
- dylan604 4y ago>migrating birds can generate signals. Great, so you're setting up Pearl Harbor 2.0
- nubinetwork 4y ago"Bird doughnut" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/roost-ring-long-point-birds-1.6558586 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/roost-ring-long-point-...
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- yowzadave 4y agoThe conclusion that this is even worthy of the attention of everyday citizens, and not a routine case of floating trash?
- topspin 4y ago"everyday citizens" shouldn't have an interest in what the US military is shooting at over North America?
- westhom 4y agoWSJ is reporting the Alaska object was metallic balloon with suspended payload.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI feel like we have a couple of weird but completely plausible events involving balloons. And now everyone is thinking about it, so people start noticing it more. Isn’t this a well-studied behaviour? X happens and suddenly lots of people are calling in about X.
- mshake2 4y agoYeah, it's a big distraction from other, non-balloon important world events that we should be focusing on, of which there are many. These balloons taking over the news cycle for days on end eats into peoples precious attention spans. Suddenly balloons are the hottest thing to focus on right now though.
- jimbob45 4y agohttps://newsasfacts.com/ https://newsasfacts.com/ Even my most unbiased source of news can’t come up with much distraction-worthy news outside of a small kerfuffle in the Philippines.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoIs this your site? It looks neat
- jimbob45 4y agoI wish lol. Someone smarter than me posted it here and I’ve been using it ever since.
- austhrow743 4y agoFYI it's just an alternative frontend to a current events page wikipedia has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- hedora 4y agoI’m surprised it doesn’t have anything about Turkey’s earthquake response. Things happened today.
- eightysixfour 4y agoThe train in Ohio seems moderately distraction worthy.
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- jliptzin 4y agoI don’t understand what’s so interesting about a spy balloon anyway. Doesn’t China already have satellites in orbit able to take high resolution pictures anywhere in the country anyway?
- Barrin92 4y agoabout the balloons themselves? Nothing. But how the US responds, how much they tolerate, that's all important signals. A lot of geopolitical competition is about poking and seeing what you can get away with.
- bpodgursky 4y ago11km is a lot closer than 350km. closer, and a lot less air in the way.
- tdehnel 4y agoLet’s say you had a rival, and they had a spy balloon floating above your house. No big deal?
- Rury 4y agoA balloon 60k+ feet above my house? Yes no big deal. Not like they will see anything better than they could from the public road, or what's on google maps.
- labster 4y agoWhat evidence do we have that these balloons are of terrestrial origin, other than Occam’s razor? It could be Venusians, who have experience building lighter than aircraft for their floating cities. Other than how wildly improbable it is, the alien theory still makes more sense than the CCP thinking balloon espionage is a pretty neat idea.
- ksherlock 4y agoThere's no released info on the second or third but China acknowledged ownership of the first balloon (as an errant weather balloon) and complained when it was destroyed. Remains of the balloon were recovered and the Chinese companies that built the balloon were identified. None of that behavior is consistent with a Venusian origin.